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[Melindam]

Sure E. I can finish it no problem.

[Snowtulip]

I probably have 3 more books for this week :)

[Vian]

Sorry, I’ve been so quiet. I’ve been out of town, but I’m heading home tomorrow.

I should be able to finish 1 or 2 more books before Sunday.

[Eldarwen]

Sounds good, ladies! :-)

[Melissa]

Hey guys! Sorry I have been quiet this week. I have been dealing with a migraine since last Friday. I’ve been reading when I can and going back and forth between the hard copy and kindle version of The Tommyknockers. Unfortunately my eyes and head could not handle it. It has like 992 pages and I am on 450 so I’m not sure I will finish it by the end of the week. I can switch to a shorter book and finish this later in the challenge if you need me to finish a book for this week.

[Eldarwen]

Hey Melissa!

Eurgh, that sucks!! Migraines are such a pain, honestly...
I'm not going to say no to you switching to a shorter book that you can finish before Sunday but if you prefer to just stay with your book, then that's fine as well. Basically, just do whatever works best for you especially with the headache probably still lingering. And stay away from the kindle - the screen's poison for headaches. :-)

[Bookworm_gem]

hi all, i really doubt i'll finish my book by Sunday but does mean i should have 2 for next week.

[Eldarwen]

Ok, thanks for letting us know!

[Melissa]

I can read Dead to the World. I usually fly through her books and it spells “wrath” in the title. I’ll pick up on tommyknockers when I finish it.

[Eldarwen]

Awesome!

Those really are pretty fast reads. :-)

[Melissa]

Or is a sin bingo?

Red cover, top shelf guilty pleasures, and book you lust after

[Eldarwen]

Ah yes, that could definitely work as a sin bingo book then!

[Melindam]

Take care Melissa. Migraines are horrible. Used to have them, but thankfully not any more.

[Stacie]

I've got two more I will definitely finish and then maybe one or two after that.

[Nicole]

Completion Post, Book 52
Book: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Date Read: 01/11
Pages: 352
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: Color: Blue -
Alternative: Envy - Award-winning

Mini-Challenge: Wrath
Task 148: MPG > Mystery, 352 pgs (Kindle edition)

[Nicole]

Completion Post, Book 53
Book: The Pretender: My Life Undercover for the FBI by Marc Ruskin
Date Read: 01/11
Pages: 367
Sin: Avarice
Criteria: Anything Goes

Mini-Challenge: Wrath
Task 92: Fingerprint on cover

[Nicole]

Will Fatal Voyage: work for task 120 or 121: Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Medical"/"Forensic Specialist"? Tagged forensic 38 times and medical-thriller 10 times. And then from the blurb: "Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is first on the scene."

[Nicole]

Will read The Lascar's Dagger for task 26.

[Eldarwen]

It is Mini Challenge Time!!

Next week's mini challenge is going to be LUST.

For more information, as per usual, read through the information you can find here.

We'll be here for questions you may have.

Have fun reading all those bad books ;-)

[Eldarwen]

Nicole wrote: "Will Fatal Voyage: work for task 120 or 121: Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Medical"/"Forensic Specialist"? Tagged foren..."

Yep, Bones works for the forensic specialist task :-)

[Stacie]

Completion Post

11/1
1.5 stars
Pages: 352
Sin: Vanity
How it fits: MPG Contemporary
Alternate: Lust
How it fits: published 2019
Bingo: N
BOM: N

Mini challenge
58 Read a book with a tool on the cover (screwdriver / hammer / wrench)

[Eldarwen]

Weird cover haha!

[Stacie]

Completion Post

11/1
323 pages
3 stars
Sin: Vanity
How it fits: Purple cover, M/M, MPG Contemporary
Bingo: Y
BOM: N

Mini Challenge

20: Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Private Eye" MPG Mystery and Cole is a PI

91 Read a book with a (human) detective as the main character
Cole is a PI and former cop

[Stacie]

Eldarwen wrote: "Weird cover haha!"

Weird book.

[Stacie]

I'm going to try to finish a couple of big books by Sunday. One is 759 and the other is 500something. It will put me under my goal again but they are big books.

If you'd rather, I can read smaller books and read more. Just let me know.

[Melindam]

Stacie, go for the big ones! :)

[Nicole]

Completion Post, Book 54, Sin Bingo
Book: To Best the Boys by Mary Weber
Date Read: 02/11
Pages: 333
Sin: Envy
Criteria:
- Color: Green:
- Genre: MPG > Young Adult
- Criteria: Books that members from other teams have read (during 2019): Read by Imke from Team Luxuria on 6 May 2019

[Nicole]

Completion Post, Book 55
Book: The Lascar's Dagger by Glenda Larke
Date Read: 02/11
Pages: 512
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: Genre: Dark Fantasy - tagged 3 times

Mini-Challenge: Wrath
Task 26: Dagger in the title

[Nicole]

Completion Post, Book 56
Book: Fatal Voyage: by Kathy Reichs
Date Read: 02/11
Pages: 449
Sin: Avarice
Criteria: Anything Goes

Mini-Challenge: Wrath
Task 121: MC is a forensic anthropologist and it has been tagged forensics 38 times

[Nicole]

Was hoping to read another book today but had a get together for the World Cup rugby and didn't have time. I now have to do work stuff in preparation for the coming week 😭 I'll definitely have Second Grave on the Left done by tomorrow and hopefully another one.

[Eldarwen]

Social life getting in the way of reading... such a terrible thing hehehe.

[Nicole]

Usually I'm the weirdo at social things who is in the corner surreptitiously trying to read but today's match was too intense and nerve-wracking that reading was the last thing on my mind 😂

[Melindam]

Congratulations to South Africa for winning the match.

[Melindam]

& the World Cup.. of course

[Stacie]

Completion Post

11/2
3 stars
628 pages
Sin: Vanity
How it fits: MPG Contemporary
Alternate: Envy
How it fits: Laura from Team Pride read it on 5/5/19
BOM: N
Bingo: N

Wrath mini challenge:
3 Read a book where there is a car accident
p.294 We had been in a car wreck.
The car accident scene takes up several pages

107 Read a book where someone receives a black eye
p. 305 "face full of air bag, two black eyes and a swollen nose....

[Eldarwen]

We're currently at 30 books read, so feel free to keep a few more coming :-)

[Melindam]

I'll finish Score! by tomorrow.

[Melissa]

I’m going to finish Dead to the World by tomorrow.

[Snowtulip]

Completion Post

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman


Rating: 3.5 stars
Date Read: 11/2/19
Pages: 720
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: 50% Blue
Alternate: Gluttony (600+page)
Sin Bingo: N
BOM: N

Mini Challenge: Wrath
#123: MPG mystery, first page steampunk
#138: MPG mystery, first page scifi
#41: MPG mystery, over 500 pages

[Snowtulip]

Completion Post

Overnight Sensation


Rating: 3.5 stars
Date Read: 11/1/19
Pages: 341
Sin: Vanity
Criteria: Contemporary
Alternate: Lust (lusty cover)
Sin Bingo: N
BOM: N

Mini Challenge: Wrath
#107: "I can't belive you have a black eye", pg 256

[Snowtulip]

I have one more book I'll finish before the deadline :)

[Eldarwen]

Fantastic guys! :-)

I'll do my best and with a bit of luck I'll have a good reading day tomorrow. Today, I just kept falling asleep whenever I sat down with the book for a bit of down-time.

[Stacie]

I made it through 100 pages of my 700 page book and then the cat came and laid on my lap and I woke up an hour later.

[Jammin Jenny]

Completion Post

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


Rating: 5 stars
Date Read: 11/2/19
Pages: 384
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: 50% Blue
Alternate: Greed (Anything Goes)
Sin Bingo: N
BOM: N

Mini Challenge: Wrath
#44 - Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Setting - Exotic Locale" - set in Switzerland, Iceland
#79 - Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense set in 1800AD - 1900AD - set in the late 1800s
#81 - Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Setting - Isolated Locale" - set in Iceland
#120 - Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Medical" - Doctor Frankenstein uses medical techniques to bring his creature to life
#138 - Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "SciFi" - the author uses science as part of her narrative, making it a sci-fi story

[Nicole]

Stacie wrote: "Completion Post

11/2
3 stars
628 pages
Sin: Vanity
How it fits: MPG Contemporary
Alternate: Envy
How it fits: Laura from Team Pride read it on 5/5/19
BOM: N
Bi..."

What did you think of this one? When I got to the end I felt like I needed to reread it again at some point.

[Nicole]

I will definitely have two done today. I've got Magpie Murders for task 11. I might have time to squeeze in a 300 - 399 page book. Will see how the day goes.

[Snowtulip]

Completion Post

Artificial Condition


Rating: 4 stars
Date Read: 11/2/19
Pages: 160
Sin: Wrath
Criteria: Brown, Space opera, enraged that the books in the series are only novella length (and enraged at human beings stupidity that's highlighted in this series ;))
Sin Bingo: YES
BOM: N

[Eldarwen]

Reminder

For the second part of the Lust mini, i.e. the reading of the bad books, please keep in mind this particular rule:

◈ Only books started on or after 4th November and finished by 2nd December will count for Part Two the Lust mini challenge (i.e. books started and finished between weeks 5 - 8).

So anything you start now and finish next week we can use for the first part of the mini which is the story, but if you wanted to pick up one or the other of the bad books from the recommendations thread, they can only be started as of tomorrow, the 4th November.

[Eldarwen]

Nicole wrote: "I will definitely have two done today. I've got Magpie Murders for task 11. I might have time to squeeze in a 300 - 399 page book. Will see how the day goes."

Does it work for something else as well?

Task 11 is filled.

[Melindam]

COMPLETION POST:


Date finished: 3 Nov
Pages: 800
Sin: Lust
Criteria: Top shelf Guilty Pleasures
Wrath mini: NO